Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Select Committee on Social Protection
Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage
10:00 am
Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I am sorry, it is €95. I have a few questions on that. The point I was trying to convey, perhaps badly, on Second Stage is that the rates of poverty among lone parents are dramatic, with deprivation levels of more than 50%. If one had a situation whereby maintenance was disregarded in the calculations for lone parent allowance, that would mean a family would be €95 a week better off. Surely that is the sort of targeting we are talking about.
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